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We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

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We report the plasmon dispersion characteristics of intrinsic and extrinsic armchair graphene nanoribbons of atomic width N = 5 using a p_z-orbital tight binding model with third-nearest-neighbor (3nn) coupling. The coupling parameters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 David R. Andersen , Hassan Raza

Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study thermal transport in nanocrystalline graphene sheets. Nanostructured graphene has been created using an iterative process for grain growth from initial seeds…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-26 Konstanze R. Hahn , Claudio Melis , Luciano Colombo

In nanofabrication, just as in any other craft, the scale of spatial details is limited by the dimensions of the tool at hand. For example, the smallest details for direct laser writing with far-field light are set by the diffraction limit,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Pekka Koskinen , Karoliina Karppinen , Pasi Myllyperkiö , Vesa-Matti Hiltunen , Andreas Johansson , Mika Pettersson

Undistorted monolayer graphene has energy bands which cross at protected Dirac points. It elastically deforms and much research has assumed the Dirac description persists, now in a curved space and coupled to a gauge field related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Matthew M. Roberts , Toby Wiseman

The outstanding properties of graphene have laid the foundation for exploring graphene-like two-dimensional systems, commonly referred to as 2D-Xenes. Amongst them, silicene is a front-runner owing to its compatibility with current silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Swastik Sahoo , Abhinaba Sinha , Namitha Anna Koshi , Seung-Cheol Lee , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

In this paper we report a detailed analysis of the temperature-dependent optical properties of epitaxially grown cadmium arsenide (Cd$_3$As$_2$), a newly discovered three-dimensional Dirac semimetal. Dynamic Fermi level tuning -- instigated…

Nano-rippled graphene, a structurally modified graphene, presents a novel material with a large range of possible applications including sensors, electrodes, coatings, optoelectronics, spintronics and straintronics. In this work we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Iva Šrut Rakić , Davor Čapeta , Milivoj Plodinec , Marko Kralj

In recent years, graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac materials like silicene, germanene, etc. have been studied from different points of view: from mathematical physics, condensed matter physics to high energy physics. In this study,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Anh-Luan Phan , Dai-Nam Le

A new type of the graphene-based three-port circulator is suggested and analysed. The cross-section of the component presents a three-layer structure consisting of a layer of silicon, of silica and of graphene. In-plane figure resembles a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Victor Dmitriev , Wagner Castro , Clerisson Nascimento

In crystal growth, surfactants are additive molecules used in dilute amount or as dense, permeable layers to control surface morphologies. Here, we investigate the properties of a strikingly different surfactant: a two-dimensional and…

Gallium nitride nanowire and nanorod substrates with different morphology are prospective platforms allowing to control the local strain distribution in graphene films top of them, resulting in an induction of pseudomagnetic fields. Atomic…

Optical properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions are considered by the formalism of pseudospin precession equations which provides an easy and natural semiphenomenological way to include correlation effects. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 M. I. Katsnelson

This article is a continuation of our previous studies of the frictional anisotropy of metal nanoparticles on the surface of a graphene substrate for other temperature conditions. The friction force acting on palladium nanoparticles on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 A. V. Khomenko , M. V. Zakharov

The nontrivial band topology for graphene with regular arrays of nanoholes with $C_{6v}$ symmetry is investigated theoretically. For the case of $3\sqrt{3} \times 3\sqrt{3}$ triangular array of nanoholes, we find an energy gap at $\Gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Yong-Cheng Jiang , Xing-Xiang Wang , Xiao Hu

Armchair graphene nanoribbons are a highly promising class of semiconductors for all-carbon nanocircuitry. Here, we present a new perspective on their electronic structure from simple model Hamiltonians and $\textit{ab initio}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Nikita V. Tepliakov , Johannes Lischner , Efthimios Kaxiras , Arash A. Mostofi , Michele Pizzochero

In a 6D model, where the extra dimensions form a discretised curved disk, we investigate the mass spectra and profiles of gravitons and Dirac fermions. The discretisation is performed in detail leading to a star-like geometry. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Bauer

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

We examine the unusual dispersion and attenuation of transverse electromagnetic waves in the few-THz regime on nanoscale graphene and copper transmission lines. Conventionally, such propagation has been considered to be highly dispersive,…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-13 S. Hossein Mousavi , Ian A. D. Williamson , Zheng Wang

The interplay of graphene and superconductivity has attracted great interest for understanding the two-dimensional Dirac Fermion physics and for superconducting device applications. In previous work, graphene-superconductor junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Naomi Mizuno , Bent Nielsen , Xu Du